Pocket sewing-awl.



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J. L. DAvmsoL POCKET sEWmG AWL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 8, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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` [SPECIFICATION fernging pertef Lettere Patent Ne. 755,628, datedMarchesa, 1904.

Application filed May 8, 1903.

,To all zo/wm t may' concern: i, Be it known that 5I, JAMES L. DAVIDSON,a citizen ofi the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the countyof Los Angeles and California, have invented'a new and useful PocketSewing-Awl, of which the following is a Specification.

\ Anobjectof this invention is to provide a superior sewing-awl whichcan be conven-v i :oliently carried in the pocket by personsliable .toneed the use ofthe same andV which is simpler, cheaper to' manufacture,more conven-y ient toadjust and arrange for use, and also more convement1n its use than former Sew- -sity of any bobbin and .to provide aninstrumentof this kind having a detachable part -therebf which at timesmay serve as awrench zo for the chuck of the awl and at other timesforms aportion 'of a receptacle for the sewing-thread. l.

Another object is to 'provide an awl o fthis kind 4which will be easy tothe hand and which 2 5 an improved tension device or thread-con-.f`troller. 'e The accompanying' drawings illustratethe invention;

Figure I is a view of my newly-invented sew- '.3'9' 4ing-'aWl/asit mayappear in use in- Stitching twopieces of leather. Fig. II. isa SectionalL view of the same `as it may` appear when the 4needle has beenwithdrawn after making a stitch and ready for making another stitch.Fig. III is a View from the Itop of Fig. I.

' `Eig. IV isan end view of the awl when the 'fthreadereceptacle isuncovered and the false bott'om removed. Figui V `other end of the awl.Fig. VI is a view of 4d thefront 4end of the awl with the cover of thethreadreceptacle in place for use as a wrench Vfor loosening the chuckto remove the needle. e Fig.- VII'shows another form `of the thread?455,.,l lzis .the stock ofthe awl, the same being proi 5i'sfa ferruleonthe end of the stock oppo- .IS'- sllhe chuck, the same being hollow toform is a view of theserial No. 156,230. No model.)

moved to gain access to the open ends of thechambers 2 3 to remove orreplace the needles, awls, or other instruments which may be carried insaid receptacle. The shell or false bottom' 7 serves to keep in placeany object or article which may be put into the Chambers. 8 is adetachable cover for the receptacle or end of the hollow ferrule, theSame being constructed to form the rear end of the awl-handle andprovided with a perforation 9, formed asa wrench-socket to fit the nut10 of the chuck,1 so that by removing the cover 8 and applying it tothenut l0 of the chuck the 'same can be screwed or unscrewed for mountingor releasing the needle, awl, or other instrument applied in the chuck.V

11 12 are. perforations respectively in the shell or false bottom 7 andthe ferrule 5 to .allow the sewing-thread 18 to pass from the ball 6along the stock 1 to the needle n.

14 is a thread-controller actuated by a spring 15 and located near thechuck of the-awl, thus providing for a considerablelength of threadalong the stock of the awl-handle, so that the lthread can be grasped bythe hand and held` tightly against the awl-handle with great conveniencefor the'purpose'of holding the thread tight in the operation ofv sewingand at the same time allowing the thread-controller to act freely .as atake-up when the thread is slackened .at the seam in the act of sewing.

The thread-controller is desirably formed of a wire 6, having'an eye 17a't the awl end of the handle and-being actuated by the spring 15,mounted inthe .chamber 2 of the 'stock of `the handle. Thethread-controller may be variously constructed.

In Fig. IIthe wire 16 within the chamber 2 iis coiled into. anlextension-Spring, the rear end of which is held by a bar or button 18,which is too large to enter the chamber. 'The eye portion 17 of thethread-controller will desirably be of a size which will allow it to bepassed through a perforation 2O in the 1 00 5 by any haces front end ofthe handle. To assemble this form, the thread-controller will beinserted then be drawn along the stoel: and passed through and woundaround the eye 17, thus to cause a friction between the thread and theeye, and then through the eye of the needle n, and thereupon theappliance is ready for sewing. The user can' regulate thefeed of thethread from the ball 6 by pressing the thread between his hand and. `thestock 1. As the needle cornes through the leather 21 or other articlebeing sewed' it draws the thread in a .loo .2Q-,and the thread beingwrapped around the l e 17 will not slip so read ily through said He, butthat it will draw the thread-con '-tvvardly, as shown in Fig.' I,against the spring 15. When the neewn from the article 21 being e treadrontroller 14rtakes up thel of. the thread, as indicated in Fig. Il.By

slac this construction and arrangement the threadcontroller does notinterfere with the hand. The hand can always have a iirin hold on thestoclr of the' awlv and can also control the feed of the thread through.the needle by pressing the thread against, the'stoclr.'

To loosen the chuck, the cover 8 may be removed and brought' over thenut of the clinch, as indicated in Fig. Vl, thereupon by causing arelative rotation between the stock and wrenchcover 8' the nut of thechuck will be turned to loosen or tighten the chuck, as the case may be.

En the ferr "aown in Fig. l? `the spring 15 is compre n-spring, and thebutton. or bar 2S compresses the saine, the wn 16 being 'fastened tosaid button. Q3 in this view is a ping closing the inner end o thechamber :7.5.

The cover 8 maybe'iastened on. the ferrule suitable means, as by anindentation 2f playingin a rule yl being furnishedV with of theawl-handle, a thread-controller cons'tructed to lhold the thread at theother end of the handle, thus allowing the thread to be led along theoutside of the handle where thesame can be readily grasped by the handrearward of the thread-controller. v

2. A sewing-awl provided with a thread controller at the front end ofthe handle, and 4means for supplying thread from the rear of the handle.

3. A sewing-awl having in its handle, a forwardly and rearwardly openingchamber for a thread-controller and also rearwardly-open-v `iingchambers to hold needles and other instruments, a-thread-reoeptaclerearward of :such chambers, a member forming abottom for suchreceptacle, anda cover for the thread-receptacle forming the end of thehanl dle. v l 4:. A sewing-aw'l having a chambered handie, the chambersof which openA rearwardly, a passage opening forwardly from one of thechambers, a'spring threadcontroller,'a perfy tion of which extendsthrough said passage to receive the thread,a thread-receptacle at therear of the handle, and a coverv for said receptacle forming the end ofthe handle.I l.

5f ln a sewing-awl, a l ongitudinally-charnbered vstoclr havinganopening at the front end communicating with a chamber of the stock, achuck at the front end of the Stock, a ncover at the rear end of thestock, the saine y a perforation to t the] nut of the chuck. 1

6. A sewing-awl furnished at one end with a chuck, and at the other endwith a detachable perforated end piece, theperforation of which isadapted to lit the nut of the chuck to turn the same.

7 A sewing-awl handle provided with a chamber, a passage leading forwardfrom the chamber, a spring in the chamber, and a membernormallyretracted by the spring extend ing through said passage andprovided with aneye at its outer end toreceive a thread.

ln testimony whereofl have sign-ed my name to this-specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, at Los Angeles,v `in the countyLos Angeles and State of California., this 2d day oi May, 1903. f

. J. L. DAVIDSQN.

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